Edward Norton

The "Knives Out" sequel director Rian Johnson had no idea Norton would show up dressed as Frank T.J. Mackey.

Having received three Oscar nominations for wildly different portrayals in Primal Fear, American History X, and Birdman, Norton is among the elite cinematic ...

Norton's Miles is center stage as a pompous man hosting a murder mystery party at his titular estate, to which Blanc secures an invitation along with a host of characters [who are all too familiar in our contemporary digital age](https://collider.com/glass-onion-influencer-culture-rian-johnson/). In his second cinematic outing, Detective Benoit Blanc ( [Daniel Craig](https://collider.com/tag/daniel-craig/)) seeks to uncover another murder mystery - and billionaire tech CEO Miles Bron (Edward Norton) is at the center of it. [Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://collider.com/tag/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/)'s film is one of modern cinema's most thrilling showcases of top-notch acting and technical mastery complementing one another. [David Fincher](https://collider.com/tag/david-fincher/)'s [Fight Club](https://collider.com/what-is-fight-club-really-about-explained/) was initially met with a certain amount of bewilderment, it went on to become one of the definitive cult classics of the '90s. The story of a washed-up film actor, Riggan Thomson ( [Michael Keaton](https://collider.com/tag/michael-keaton/)), who hopes to reinvent himself and his career by staging a revival of a Raymond Carver play, Birdman is chock-full of great performances. [Wes Anderson](https://collider.com/tag/wes-anderson/)'s [Moonrise Kingdom](https://collider.com/moonrise-kingdom-wes-anderson-why-its-good/) was a critical darling and commercial success upon release. According to Norton, he was so eager to work with Anderson that [he received a mere $4,200 for his work](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/edward-norton-4200-moonrise-kingdom-wes-anderson-films-money-losing.html/) on Moonrise Kingdom. [released alongside Christopher Nolan's The Prestige](https://collider.com/movies-with-same-plot-same-release-year/), also set in the world of magicians during the same era, the film explores classical themes in its depiction of the fraught nature of forbidden love. [Richard Gere](https://collider.com/tag/richard-gere/) in playing an altar boy accused of murdering an archbishop, Norton pulled off a multilayered performance within a performance. [his most raw and unnerving performance](https://collider.com/american-history-x-edward-norton-best-performance/) to date in Tony Kaye's drama. Set in Vienna in the late 19th century, The Illusionist tells the story of a magician who attempts to transcend class boundaries by reconnecting with a woman he knew in childhood. [Edward Norton](https://collider.com/tag/edward-norton/) has given audiences a number of affecting, high-quality performances.

With his inclusion in Rian Johnson's ensemble sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, it's only fitting to reflect on some of the actor's finest films and ...

[Primal Fear](/title/tt0117381/), [Edward Norton](/name/nm0001570/)has given audiences a number of affecting, high-quality performances. [See full article at Collider.com](https://collider.com/edward-norton-movies/)» Having received three Oscar nominations for wildly different portrayals in [Primal Fear](/title/tt0117381/), [American History X](/title/tt0120586/), and Birdman, Norton is among the elite cinematic performers of his generation.

One of the key players in this fever-dream drama is Frank T.J. Mackey, a misogynistic motivational speaker played to sleazeball perfection by Tom Cruise, who ...

Via a flashback set in 2010, we learn that Bron was introduced to the central characters by Cassandra "Andi" Brand (Janelle Monáe). [Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra,"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbanWHx5AFQ) preaches empowerment to his adoring crowd via one hilariously pathetic phrase: "Respect the c**k, and tame the c**t." One of the key players in this fever-dream drama is Frank T.J. Michael De Luca was New Line Cinema's wunderkind executive in the late 1990s when he went with his gut and granted Paul Thomas Anderson final cut on his follow-up to "Boogie Nights." When we first meet Bron, he's picking out the bridge to The Beatles' "Blackbird," one of the most beautiful compositions in the band's unsurpassable songbook, on, so he claims, the acoustic guitar on which Paul McCartney wrote the ditty. ["Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"](https://www.slashfilm.com/1002610/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-review-rian-johnson-outdoes-himself-with-a-hilarious-new-benoit-blanc-mystery-tiff/) is the "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" of whodunnit sequels (a rare breed, but work with me here).